Quotes from Virgil

If I cannot prevail upon heaven, I will stir up hell!

Dread wars and outbursts of rage are dear to her heart

And war in my hand I carry, and death I bear.

War will not save us

Is death so dreadful a thing?

Paeoniis revocatum herbis et amore Dianae.

God delights in odd numbers.

The odd number is held to be immortal, because it cannot well be divided.

The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti

A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever.

Womankind Is ever a fickle and a changeful thing.

The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.

And now every field is clothed with grass, every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms; now the year assumes its gayest attire.

Persistent work triumphs.

To have died once is enough.

In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom.

Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.

How can there be such anger in the minds of the gods?

That which an enraged woman can accomplish.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

Passion and strife bow down the mind.

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.